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Title: J. D. Wade photographs
Dates: 1969-1970
Collection Number: 1996-43
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Photographs taken by J.D. Wade during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This set of black and white prints and original negatives
document the States Line Steamship Company picket during the late spring of 1969.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. J. D. Wade photographs. Collection Number: 1996-43. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs taken by J.D. Wade during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This set of black and white prints and original negatives
document the States Line Steamship Company picket during the late spring of 1969. In late March, States Line fired a young
man named Gale Whittington simply because he was gay. This act spawned one of the first gay liberation organizations in San
Francisco, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, which began picketing the States Lines office on California Street. The photographs
and negatives in this set document that picket line, as well as the reactions of some of the startled passers-by. Additionally,
this collection contains black and white photographs of stage performers from 1970. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003411; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194
Labor
Photography
Gay men